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How big is the friends planning travel together market? Don’t get me wrong, it is great that you scratched your own dog food. But it doesn’t seem like a signi

How big is the friends planning travel together market? Don’t get me wrong, it is great that you scratched your own dog food. But it doesn’t seem like a significant problem for experienced travelers, business travelers, family travelers or tour operators…most travel planning doesn’t involve thinking “I wish I had a chat app.” We're looking for advice on next steps - potential pivots, growth hacks, anything really. The important thing you built is a team who can complete a project together. There are no generic growth jacks, everything requires very specific hard work. The best thing the team can do is build something else together. The team is what matters. Good luck.

jjaksic 1y ago
I can see some potential value add in this space. Whenever you're going somewhere new and/or you don't already know your exact itinerary upfront, you would (nowadays) typically ask an AI bot for recommendations, and those are typically poorly integrated, and often AI will suggest places that don't exist, are closed etc., then you have to manually book them. I haven't checked travel apps space lately, but I believe there's room here to deliver a more seamless experience. Getting users is going to be the hard part.
- brudgers 1y ago
  Getting users is going to be the hard part. It is certainly a hard part, but delivering value to those users will be even harder. Because delivering value will require an LLM with expertise on every place a person might want to travel and delivering useful answers to people with arbitrary tastes/desires/needs/itineraries/etc. Some times for some people in some places "McDonalds" is just the right recommendation about where to eat. If you are at Exit 47 at 9pm it could be the best option. If you are in the French Quarter at 3pm, it probably isn't. So how do you pay for good answers for everyplace in the world? Even Google struggles with that.

jjaksic 1y ago

I can see some potential value add in this space. Whenever you're going somewhere new and/or you don't already know your exact itinerary upfront, you would (nowadays) typically ask an AI bot for recommendations, and those are typically poorly integrated, and often AI will suggest places that don't exist, are closed etc., then you have to manually book them. I haven't checked travel apps space lately, but I believe there's room here to deliver a more seamless experience. Getting users is going to be the hard part.

brudgers 1y ago
Getting users is going to be the hard part. It is certainly a hard part, but delivering value to those users will be even harder. Because delivering value will require an LLM with expertise on every place a person might want to travel and delivering useful answers to people with arbitrary tastes/desires/needs/itineraries/etc. Some times for some people in some places "McDonalds" is just the right recommendation about where to eat. If you are at Exit 47 at 9pm it could be the best option. If you are in the French Quarter at 3pm, it probably isn't. So how do you pay for good answers for everyplace in the world? Even Google struggles with that.